Kitchen & Bath: Grout Wars

I can almost see the joy on some of
my customers faces as they enter the
tile showroom and discover all of the
different colors of grout. "Now we can
match our tile with a complimentary
shade of grout," I can hear them say.
Yeah, sure.
The good news, from a design standpoint,
is that we are finally rid of that
dreadful use of dark grout with light
tile. The bad news is with so many
different shades of grout available,
clients expect that "decorator" colored
grouts will solve all the problems of
the world.
Once again, it seems, the burden of
making the new look (read new
product) work well enough to meet
the client's elevated expectations